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Hear it Here – and a Podcast?

Audio Assignment 416 Hear it Here

I wrote a very short little story that uses homophones. The words sound like other words, but can you tell what they mean without seeing the spelling? enjoy the recording.

I used a new microphone attached to headphones to do this recording. I think it is a little scratchy sounding. I need to work on making it clearer. Until this week I hadn’t made a voice recording before on a computer. When I was a child, I had a talk girl it was the pink version of a talk boy as seen in Home Alone 2 lost in New York. I spent a summer playing with that. So since then, I have not recorded myself on purpose really.

While I was considering using a computer voice generator for this assignment, I came across a web page that turns information into a pod cast script. You can then take the script and have it read in a style. I took the short story I wrote and gave it a pod cast theme that I thought would be in line with my character Lady Alice. I found it very amusing how much it read into a story I wrote in less than 20 mins.

https://app.wondercraft.ai/e/02yGvY4b

I really feel like it captures Lady Alice. I think the podcast does a good job of connecting the assignment to my character and shows more of how I envision her to be.

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Radio Show with special Co-Host

I think that this project will be fun! I know it is going to take a lot of time and effort but what is something great that doesn’t take time and effort. My character is actually based off of someone I know, and I am hoping they will help me get the correct voice I need in order to make my life just a tiny bit easier. My character is shy at first so maybe he won’t do a lot of talking in the beginning of the radio show but at the end he will be the one talking the most.

As for the “plot” of the radio show I have no idea until I know which other characters I will be working with. Everyone’s character has a different personality that we must take into account for when conversating with others. Like my character he likes boring items like water and soup. My character is a boring person but has a great personality once he starts opening up.

I am very excited to work with other people to make a radio show and I am hoping that we can do a zoom call, so I am able to meet my classmates face to face. Only time will tell me who I will be working with.

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Sound Effect Story – Walking a Dog

I had a difficult time thinking of something to do a story on with no words. It came down to crunch time Friday afternoon and I had no ideas. Hopefully you don’t find this too boring, but it is a rather peaceful walk. So, sit back and destress and enjoy the sounds of taking a dog out without leaving your seat.

This is a picture of my dog. I was able to find audio of the same breed of dog I have to use. Which was fun. My dog loves other animals except white dogs. If you are a white dog doesn’t matter your size, you must die. She believes they are a threat to her and her family. The little white poodle/terrier mix across the street the same size as a cat is public enemy number one in her book. So obviously I took inspiration from life again.

I used sounds I found on Free sound and the following are a few of the ones I used.

Small stream in woods by CastleofSamples

footstepsB by bennstir

Jazz the dog Howl &Bark by delphinebrain

Footsteps walking through woods by noisyninja

Slam door by Soundsforhim

Dog barking in forest when jogger passend by by AtoMediaDesign

Single dog bark 1 by Crazymonke9

Cat Angry Hissing 01 by promete

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Week Four Summary

The first assignment this week was to listen to Moon Graffiti and reflect on the use of sounds throughout this story. You can read my thoughts here. I loved the use of audio in this story and really was not something I had noticed played such an important role, especially in podcasts. Definitely a worthwhile listen to learn more about the importance of audio.

The next assignment was to create a radio bumper for DS106 radio, which can be found in this article. I have never done something like this, so I had to navigate through some obstacles and stumble my way through Audacity to create a product I was proud of.

We also had to reflect on a DS106 radio listening session from this week, which I wrote about here. My primary takeaway is that people pick up on different sounds within the same story and get meaning from it that others might not.

Making a sound effect story was the trickiest assignment for me this week, and you can listen to mine here. Again, it involved a lot of stumbling through Audacity until I figured out how to make it do what I wanted with the sounds I found and the story I wanted to tell. I think I told a pretty mundane story, but it was a challenge for me, which I enjoyed!

I also completed three other audio assignments which can be found here, here, and here. They all were pretty straightforward, but if it were possible to have negative experience with sound editing, that is where I would be coming into this week. I somehow managed to complete them and have a much better understanding of how to use Audacity thanks to all these exercises.

Once again, I completed three daily creates this week which can be found on Mastodon here, here, and here. I always enjoy working through these and looking at other replies to see how everyone interpreted each assignment.

I also came up with a few rough radio show ideas, which are still not fully fleshed out. I am definitely getting closer to figuring out which direction I want to go with the radio show, specifically that I want to include an AI component in the show itself.

A big lesson from this week for me is that everyone interprets assignments, sounds, and stories differently. That is what makes everyone unique and allows stories to give different meanings to different people. Knowing an audience is important in many areas of life, but that does not necessarily mean everyone will interpret something the same way, which is awesome (and scary) to think about.